DAILY WEATHER UPDATE: BIG SWELL, SUPER MOON AND AN EAST COAST LOW
There is a little low pressure system spiralling around in Bass Strait. It has been moving back towards the west and that doesn’t happen very often but when they do they usually kick-up some heavy storms.
There has been some small storm cells flare-up across the Northern Tablelands, and they are slowly tracking towards South East Queensland and the Northern Rivers.
That huge tail of that system is going to spawn an East Coast low. During Saturday and Sunday a whole bunch of micro lows will form right along that trough line as it deepens along the weekend and then they are all going to merge together forming one intense low pressure system come Monday.
That means we should have a clear, cool classic Autumn weather this weekend.
Surfers can expect solid swell, very similar to the conditions that came through about two weeks ago. This has been a cracking season for surfers, we have seen the northerly swell push all of the sand into the southern corners, so the classic east coast Australian surf breaks have been cranking and they will be again.
That solid swell will combine with the super moon on Sunday. The full moon will be the closest it’s been to earth in 18 years, so therefore we have massive tides, King Tides, especially for Newcastle and the Central Coast. There will be 2.10 metre tides so we’ll see some coastal erosion as well.
